Article ID: CBB000951602

Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context (2009)

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Pandora, Katherine A. (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 100
Pages: 346--358


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Focus Section: Historicizing “Popular Science”
Language: English

In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum era offers the most significant opportunity to realize more sophisticated understandings of science in American popular culture. First, it enables us to take advantage of comparative opportunities, both by benefiting from the advanced state of historiography for Victorian popular science and by engaging with a generation of historiographic innovations by scholars in U.S. history, American studies, literature, and art history. Second, the emergence of popular science in the context of the republican ethos of the antebellum period provides an important vantage point from which to assess the extent to which the general issue of popular science and its cognates is historically variable and multiple in terms of the politics of knowledge. Third, the ramifications of the development of popular science for relations between science and the public well into the twentieth century cannot be understood until we gain a more clearly developed sense of the emergent period.

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Authors & Contributors
Černá, Jana
Wråkberg, Urban
Turchetti, Simone
Tonda Mazón, Juan
Sörlin, Sverker
Santos, Ricardo Ventura
Concepts
National histories
Cross-national comparison
Popularization
Cross-national interaction
Historiography
Globalization; internationalization
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
17th century
Early modern
19th century
Places
France
Americas
Great Britain
United States
Spain
Russia
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie, Berlin-Dahlem
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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